by thebaroness89 » Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:00 pm
Ok. Just went thru 3 "tracks" from Frozen Kart.
In a restrained voice...your initial statement just makes me angry. Now I understand that as toybox artists we are going to love our own work...except for me because I love the work of Erdadi3, Mightygitis, Vasuri and Pirate Steve much more than anything I've ever done...anything I create is reflective of my admiration of their past and present work...
That being said...honestly...and I mean honestly go back and look at your toybox and see what it actually is before wondering how the top 5 or the honorable mentions were chosen.
With a contructive voice of advice....you should next time just put all of your effort into one track or toybox whatever the challenge is. Your weak point isn't ideas it's the actual decorative and construction elements. Chocolate Mountain track was literally terrain pieces all one pattern with zero decoration pieces and wasn't a mountain in any sense.
Do what I did...look at the master builders Pirate,Mightygitis, Erdadi3, Vasuri83,Dsmmatt,Vault of Villains,Dizexplorer03 etc...King of the Tunas...really study their building technique.
For building lands and forests etc study Mightygitis.
For block art study CC Runner and Pirate Steve
For Logic building study Semerian and Erdadi3
For storytelling look at Dizexplorer03 and Sonic Photo
For large scale creativity study Vasuri83, Dsmmatt and Vault of Villains
For gameplay that just sucks you in and makes you want to play over and over look at the Toybox Mentors CrazyByNick,PapaEcho,Dr Logic Gate,TyForce et al
And I'm not even naming Infinifan,InfintyGuru,ModelTrainMan,Enrem,Mr Monki,FDanielX,Wanted Gamer,Romulus...so many people you can study and learn from.
Only then will your boxes make that leap from basic to pro. And I'm saying this with lots of love because my first toyboxes were meh and blah and seriously I thought they were the kittens mittens.
Watch twitch streams of Erdadi3, Mightygitis and WantedGamer...join in some sessions of building with other artists...everybody this season is bringing their A+ game to building and challenges and what you got right now was not worth the initial rant. Thats as sweet as I can make that sound.